As the Romans Did by Jo-Ann SheltonThe Ancient City by Peter ConnollyThe Year 1000 by Robert LaceyDaily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 by Jacques GernetLife in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceUlysses by James JoyceThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann HesseTime Regained by Marcel Proust
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307 books — 153 voters
Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas PakenhamRemarkable Trees of the World by Thomas PakenhamThe Wild Trees by Richard   PrestonSelected Poems by Conrad AikenIn the Memory of the Forest by Charles T. Powers
Trees on Covers
925 books — 185 voters

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Literary Smut
146 books — 108 voters

The Annotated Alice by Lewis CarrollThe Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob GrimmThe Annotated Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian AndersenThe Annotated Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Annotations & The Annotated
136 books — 32 voters
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Odyssey by HomerThe Golden Ass by ApuleiusThe Histories by HerodotusAesop’s Fables by Aesop
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277 books — 295 voters